@umairh: When I say “the modern world,” what do you think of? Probably a great city somewhere, with broad avenues, spacious parks, art and culture, old museums, people buzzing about, public transport thrumming. Now t……
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Wind and solar developers say delays in NSW planning applications could derail the state’s plans to replace coal with renewables in a decade.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/wind-and-solar-face-planning-brick-wall-that-threatens-to-derail-switch-from-coal/
Purchasers of a new high-emitting car, who are typically people in higher income groups, pay a higher one-time registration tax at the time of purchase—starting in 2023, the maximum amount is €50,000 for vehicles emitting 225 g CO2/km (based on WLTP) or more.
The amounts have been used in the past to finance bonus payments for both BEVs and plug-in-hybrid vehicles
— Read on thedriven.io/2023/07/03/how-germany-and-france-are-making-evs-affordable-for-people-on-lower-incomes/
Updated: Prices go negative across Western Europe electricity markets on Saturday, and are expected to do so on most weekends over summer.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/crazy-world-of-eu-power-negative-prices-across-western-europe-all-day-in-germany/
Australia’s biggest generation companies now have a new tool to help push prices to the market cap – big batteries.
— Read on reneweconomy.com.au/the-big-battery-being-used-to-push-electricity-prices-to-the-market-cap/
extract “AGL then rebid 91 MW of capacity at the Wandoan battery from the price floor (minus $1,000 a megawatt hour) to around $10,000/MWh and set the price, the regulator said.”
Such Smugliness
Climate activist says only ‘rapid and equitable’ phaseout will keep temperatures within 1.5C limit
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/13/greta-thunberg-not-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-is-death-sentence-for-worlds-poor
The very difficult reduction global warming to become impossible at next COP28 climate conference
Researchers say ‘urgent action’ needed as rise in renewables is eclipsed by increase in world’s total energy consumption
— Read on www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/26/greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-global-energy-industry-still-rising-report
isn’t suicide illegal? Is it too big to fail?
New book by Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway traces history of Big Business campaign to push ‘big myth’ #Polycrisis #EconomicCrisis
https://climateactionaustralia.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/new-book-by-naomi-oreskes-erik-conway-traces-history-of-big-business-campaign-to-push-big-myth-polycrisis-economiccrisis/if you thought free market economics nonsense only started recently, please read this book extract, it all started as pushback to New Deal USA Great Depression era 1930s!!
— Read on climateactionaustralia.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/new-book-by-naomi-oreskes-erik-conway-traces-history-of-big-business-campaign-to-push-big-myth-polycrisis-economiccrisis/
ideas to minimise rip off pricing for electricity
“Like the Hydra”: Strategic incapacitation fails to decapitate the climate movement By Zelda GrimshawJun 22, 2023 Blockade Australia’s return this …
“Like the Hydra”: Strategic incapacitation fails to decapitate the climate movement #ClimateCrisis
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